Poultry-car.



W. P. JOHNSON.

POULTRY CAR.

APPLICATION FILED OCT. 11. 1914.

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W. P. JOHNSON.

POULTRY CAR.

APPLICATION FILED 0CT.17, 1914.

1,1 59,843. Patented Nov. 9, 1915.

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COLUMBIA PLANDORAPH co.. WASHINGTON, D. c.

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WALIDO I. JOHNSON, or onroAeo, ILLInoIs.

PGULTRY-CAR;

Specification of Letters Patent.

Y Patented N 0v. 9, 1915.

Application filed'fictober 17, 1914. Serial No..867,120..

To all whom it may concern.

Be it known that I, WALDO P.'JOHNSON, a citizen of the United States,residing at Chicago, in the county of Cook and State of Illinois, haveinvented a new and useful Improvement in Poultry-Cars, of which thefollowing is a specification.

My invention relates to an improvement in the class of railway carswhich are equipped for the shipment of live poultry by having built inthem, with a View to sanitary and humane confinement of the fowls. tiersof coops on opposite sides of a central aisle, enlarged midway of itslength into a vestibule for the attendants, from which aisle to gainaccess to the coops for replenishing them en route with feed and Waterand for introducing and withdrawing the creatures and cleaning thecoops. Each coop is provided with an open-work door pivoted attheopposite ends of its lower edge, to hinge it. to adjacent aisle-posts,which are ordinarily provided with retaining means in position to bereleasably en gaged by catches at or near the upper dooredges forsecuring the doors in their raised coop-closing positions. Modern carsof this type are steel structures, and the aisle-posts arechannel-beams, with their flanges .eX-.

tending outwardly to present to the aisle their flat faces, upon whichit is the more recent practice to rivet brackets provided with pintlesfor hinging the doors and catches for releasably holding them whenraised for closure. By thus setting the aisle-posts, theoutwardly-projecting beam-flanges not only take up valuable space. butthe beams present lodgment for filth from the coops. which tends torender them unsanitary and is difiicult of removal in cleaning thecoops. The brackets referred to are frequently broken in the rough usageto which the car is necessarily subjected, thereby-impairing thesupports for the doors. rendering the matter of keeping them closed. enroute. arduous, and, besides. adding materially to the expense ofmaintenance.

The primary purpose of my improvement is to overcome these objections,and this I accomplish by presenting the flat faces of the channel-beamsforming the aisle-posts outwardly. toward the coops, and the flangesinwardly, toward the aisle; and this enables me to adapt thebeam-flanges for hinging the aisle-doors in place and for releasablylatching or retaining them when raised for closure, thereby dispensingwith allfixtures,

such as brackets, hitherto applied for these purposes to the posts. Inthe accompanying drawings, Figure 1 1s a broken View in front elevationshbwing a portion of a tier of coops as they appear at'the aisle; Fig.2is section on line 2, Fig. 1 Fig. 3 is an end viewof a coop-door Fig. 41s a section on line i, Fig. 2; Figs; 5, 6 and 7 are'views respectivelylike Figs. 1, 2 and 8, but illustrating a modification, and Fig. 8 is asection on line 8, Fig. 5.

The aisle-posts, one of which is shown at 9 containing openings 10 forinsertion and withdrawal of feed-troughs (not shown), are channel-beamsriveted to angle-beams 11 forming the inner sills supporting theadjacent ends of the coop-floors 11?. These posts are set with theirflanges 91 projecting toward the aisle. The open-work coopdoors 12(Figs. 1 to 1, inclusive) carry on each end-member 13 a lower pintle 1 1and an upper catch 15 to enter, respectively, a closed elongated slot 11 and. an open or bayonet slot 15' in proper position in each flange.The pintle and catch are preferably formed on the opposite ends of andare thus connected by or integral with a strip 16 riveted to adoor-member 13. This construction facilitates placing the doors in thefirst instance in the following manner:

lVith a strip 16 riveted near its upper and' lower endsto a member 13 onone end of a door, the pintle on that end may be inserted into theproper adjacent flange-slot 1e; and for then securing in place the stripfor the opposite end ofthe door, the pintle thereon may be inserted intothe proper flange-slot 14 and with the door opened and thelastnamedstrip turned on its pintle downwardly, to render that door-end and there- 'spective strip accessible for riveting them together, the rivetsmay be readily driven,

when the door is hingedly supported be tween adjacent posts and adaptedto be raised, for closing it, on its pintles and then lifted in therespective slots 1? to enter the catches 15 into and drop themintheadjacent bayonet-slots 15. As will be understood, for opening a door,it requires to be first lifted to register the catches with and withdrawthem through the open ends of the bayonet-slots.

The principle of utilizing the flanges at the aisle of the post-formingbeams 9 for hingedly supporting the aisledoors and re leasably securingthem in closed condition, may be employed by various means otherthan thedescribed pintles and catches on the door-ends, though they producethose advantages hereinbefore mentioned in a superior manner. Of suchother means, however, those illustrated in Figs. 5 to 8, inclusive, andhereinafter described, are believed to most nearly approach, in thematter of attaining these advantages, the construction illustrated inthe preceding figures. In this modification, the pintles project fromthe post, instead of from the doors, being the ends of rods, one ofwhich is shown at 17, extending through the flanges, and similarlydisposed rods 18 are providedior engage ment with their projecting endsof catches on the doors 12. The pintle-ends of each rod 17 enterelongated slots i l" in the lower ends of the door-membersl3, whichcarry on their upper ends hook-like catches 19 to engage the projectingends of the rods 18.

What I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent is 1. In apoultry-car having tiers of coops along an aisle, aisle-posts formed offlanged beams set to project their flanges inwardly toward the aisle,and coop-doors each hingedly supported on the flanges of adjacent posts,said flanges being formed to constitute hinge and latch members forsupporting the said doors.

2. In a poultry-car having tiers of coops along an aisle, aisle-postsformed of flanged beams set to project their flanges inwardly Copies ofthis patent may be obtained for toward the aisle, coop-doors hingedlysupported at their lower ends on said flanges, and means on the upperparts of the doors for releasably latching them to said flanges when thedoors are raised on their hinges into closed position, said flangesbeing formed to constitute hinge and latch members for supporting thesaid doors.

3. In a poultry-car having tiersof ,coops along an aisle, aisle=postsformed of flanged beams set to project their flanges inwardly toward theaisle, and having pintle-slots and open-slots in the flanges, andcoop-doors provided on their end-members with lower pintles entering thepintle slots for hinging said doors, and with upper catchesto enter theopen slots for releasably fastening said doors when raised on theirhinges into closed position.

a. In a poultry-car having tiers of coops along an aisle, aisle-postsformed of flanged beams set to project their flanges inwardly toward theaisle, and having elongated pintle-slots and bayonet-slots in theflanges, and coop-doors having secured on the outer faces of theirend-members strips terminating at their lower ends in pintles enteringsaid pintle-slots and. at their upper ends in catches to enter the openslots for releasably fastening said doors when raised on their hingesinto closed position. v

NALDO P. JOHNSON. In presence of" A. G. Frsonen, L. HnIsLAn.

five cents each, by addressing the Commissioner of Fatents,

Washington, D. C.

